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The Guardian FootballMax Dowman’s Fleetwood fracas leaves him, Arsenal and Arteta red-faced
Teenager was maybe harshly sent off in the Carabao Cup tie but his reaction was a mistake he will learn from, while his manager might also have regrets Mikel Arteta’s reaction said it all. As Max Dowman trudged towards the touchline after becoming the youngest player sent off in a League Cup match at 16 years and 300 days, the Arsenal manager could not help himself. Arms folded across his chest like an angry father who has caught his teenage son sneaking in after midnight, Arteta leaned over and aimed a few choice words in Dowman’s direction before the forward headed sheepishly down the tunnel. What he said remains unknown, although that hasn’t stopped the amateur lip-readers speculating on social media. “Get in the changing room. Now,” appears the most likely guess. Continue reading...
Football ItaliaExclusive: From Pro Patria to the World: Estrella’s new model for running football clubs
This past July, Pro Patria became the first Italian club Estrella Football Group acquired: Football...
BBC SportFlat-track bullies Celtic continue descent into European irrelevance
BBC Scotland's Tom English reviews another frustrating night in Europe for the Scottish champions.
The Guardian Football‘I suffer a lot’: Villarreal owner Fernando Roig on not enjoying games and the prospect of Liverpool | Sid Lowe
It will be a tense time for Europe’s longest serving president, despite the Champions League game at Anfield offering a symbol of how far they have come The first time Fernando Roig watched Villarreal play as their president, he sat in the stand at a tiny whitewashed ground that had concrete fever and was half empty. It was a Sunday night in the second division, they lost 3-0 against Badajoz, and he didn’t enjoy it much. But then, he never enjoys it much. Even on Tuesday at Anfield, he will not: into his 30th year, the longest presidency in Europe, that is about the only thing that hasn’t changed. More than 1,000 games and still it happens. “I don’t get nervous,” he says. “It’s worse: I get worried, very anxious. I suffer a lot. Continue reading...
ESPNInfantino apologizes to FIFA Council, avoids key issues
Gianni Infantino gave an apology to his toughest critics but no new details or documents on FIFA issues during FIFA council meetings Thursday.
ESPNPochettino's son eyes Conference League debut
The son of USMNT coach Mauricio Pochettino, Maurizio, is set to make his Euro debut in UEFA Conference League.
BBC SportThe Andorran club making history with a Pochettino in the team
Maurizio Pochettino and inter Club d'Escaldes are set to make European history for footballing minnows Andorra.
ESPNMessi's final Argentina match was an emotional send-off worthy of a legend
There was hardly a dry eye in the house as 85,000 Argentina fans gathered in Buenos Aires to express their gratitude for Lionel Messi one last time.
The Guardian FootballLionel Messi’s Argentina career turned football into a sacred mystery
Jorge Messi wanted his country to fall in love with his son. That ambition was fulfilled during a brilliant international career that ended this week “What Argentina is doing in this World Cup is of a sacred order,” Brazilian writer Milly Lacombe posted at the height of the tide of anti-Argentinian sentiment during this year’s tournament. She was exploring the contradiction she felt around her support of Lionel Messi: “a player who is a God and a man who shakes Trump’s hand”. Lacombe highlighted the importance of acknowledging the complexities around Messi and the Argentinian team. How is it possible that Messi was not speaking out against the racist incidents we all saw around the Argentina team , she asked. “That’s why it hurts so much to see someone with Messi’s power choosing to make himself small,” she wrote. Continue reading...
Football ItaliaPedro announces retirement: ‘Italy touched my heart, you treated me like a son’
Former Barcelona, Chelsea and Lazio forward Pedro has announced his retirement from football at the...
The Guardian FootballYemen and football in the face of civil war: ‘It would be very nice to give the world a different headline’
Coach Noureddine Ould Ali is staying positive despite a difficult situation at home and tough opponents at the Gulf Cup The Yemen national coach, Noureddine Ould Ali, chose not to reach for a good old-fashioned football excuse after his team’s 1-0 loss to Qatar in the Gulf Cup on Saturday, despite a clear penalty not given their way. The defeat meant the Reds crashed out of the eight-team regional tournament, taking place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with a game of the group stage remaining. There are other factors the Algerian could list for a defeat against a team that was at the World Cup. Qatar have the Aspire Academy, state of the art stadiums and a former Spain and Real Madrid coach – Julen Lopetegui – in charge. Yemen have nothing approaching that and have not played a home game since 2012, a 2-1 win over Palestine in Sanaa. Continue reading...
Sky Sports Premier LeaguePremier League in joint call for FIFA reform amid Infantino crisis
The Premier League and three of its top European counterparts will on Friday issue a joint call for urgent governance reform at FIFA amid the crisis engulfing its president, Gianni Infantino.
ESPNWill anyone stop Infantino? FIFA president's confident U20 World Cup cameo says otherwise
Under fire from UEFA, Gianni Infantino is back to business as usual and inching closer to reelection as FIFA president.
The Guardian FootballMallorca goalkeeper Iván Cuéllar injured after ‘large structure’ in canteen falls on him
42-year-old suffers ‘serious head injury’ at training base Cuéllar recovering in hospital after alarming accident The Real Mallorca goalkeeper Iván “Pichu” Cuéllar suffered a serious head injury when “a large structure” at the club’s training ground canteen collapsed on him. The club said Cuéllar was taken to hospital on Monday after the incident at the Ciutat Esportiva Antonio Asensio – also known as Son Bibiloni – before the team’s scheduled training session. Continue reading...
The Guardian FootballLamine Yamal: ‘Football is mechanised but players like me have that special spark’
Spain and Barcelona wonderkid has won World Cup and European Championship but says there are no limits for his career Like the kid he is, Lamine Yamal just wanted to keep playing. This wasn’t Plaça Joan XXIII, wasn’t El Parque de Rocafonda either; it wasn’t the Mataró neighbourhood where it all began, but it might have been. “We’re in a World Cup final and I wanted to carry on,” he says, and there’s the smile again, the braces. Really? “Yes”. No nerves? “No. I never thought: ‘Just blow the whistle’. I was enjoying it.” No fear, just fun: 19 July, New Jersey and he knew: this 19-year-old who had happily been asleep on the bus to the biggest match of his life. And now he sits in a first-floor office in Las Rozas, surrounded by tactics boards and stats sheets. There’s a Spain keyring hanging from the door and a second star on his shirt. In the corridor, crates loaded for London. Son of Mounir and Sheila, named after the family friends who helped them, “ touched by God’s wand ” in the words of the coach whose office is next door, there’s something about Lamine Yamal. He turned 17 the day before the final of Euro 2024 , a schoolboy sitting exams, and 19 the day before the semi-final of the World Cup. Asked what he wanted, he said a trip to New York, so there he was, about to be a champion again. Continue reading...
The Guardian FootballPaper trail of protests: José Mourinho plays the hits in Madrid derby defeat | Sid Lowe
Facing Diego Simeone 13 years on, José Mourinho brought a print-out and paranoia. Some things don’t change. Some people don’t, either There were many questions to emerge from the Madrid derby, which Atlético won 2-1 in front of 70,514 very, very noisy people at the Metropolitano on Sunday afternoon, even if not the one José Mourinho was asking. Like: what year is this? Or: what was Dean Huijsen thinking? Why always Arda? And whatever happened to Vinícius Júnior? How come Koke is still the best? And how long before Giuliano Simeone actually bursts, his atlético insides exploding across the pitch? Above all though, you were left wondering: where did Real Madrid’s manager get a printer from? And how did he get the bloody thing to work? You could still hear the singing outside when Mourinho turned up in the press room, laid down his glasses and sat. In his hand was a piece of paper. Thirteen years after his last derby, on the Santiago Bernabéu night when Madrid lost the Copa del Rey final and a 13-year unbeaten run against their neighbours, Diego Simeone had defeated him again. The stage was new – this stadium didn’t exist then – but his adversary was somehow still the same man, still dressed in black, and the scene was a bit like old times, a classic. Mourinho unfolded the paper and held it up. “We can save ourselves the bother of the press conference,” he said, “because the story is right here.” Continue reading...
ESPN⚽ First-month grades for all 20 Premier League teams
Which Premier League teams are acing -- or flunking -- the season so far? Let's grade every team!
ESPNUEFA, Concacaf tell FIFA to make $10M payments to all members
FIFA's member federations should each get an extra $10 million (£7.4m) from its swelling cash reserves after a successful World Cup, the soccer body's vice presidents from Europe and North America said in a letter Friday.